Web/Tech

Musician Nissa Ludwig puts a compelling spin on pay-per-download sites. Her LightningCD site not only lets you buy an album for ten bucks, like iTunes, it automates the process of burning that album to disc and printing official cover art…

Warp Records is launching their own pay-per-download site. What’s different is that they’re just putting straight-up, un-DRM’ed MP3 files out for you to download. And the logic is clear. You can get pirated MP3s anywhere. Wouldn’t you rather skip the…

We’ve posted before about robotic band name generators, but here’s an entire site dedicated to helping you find just the right name for your band, your album and even your memoirs. [via Seth Godin]

I wrote about this a while back, but I wanted to bring it up again. Our friend Veken from the band Granian has developed a counterintuitive but highly effective marketing campaign that capitalizes on how people really use music online…

Christopher Reyes earns some column inches for his work on the excellent city guide LiveFromMemphis.com. Whether or not he’ll find enough revenue to hit his dream of hiring a $500K a year staff is up for debate. But this is…

I’ll pass on the iPod mini, but GarageBand makes me regret switching back to PCs after my last PowerBook self-immolated.

I was having so much fun sending out the first Indie Music Club newsletter of the year, I plumb forgot to give it a subject line. That really is a message from me in your inbox. It isn’t spam or…